Two guys sitting in easy chairs, smoking cigars. One says, "I thought you were in lovage," and the other says, "I was, until she Tolmiea I looked like a Todaea." The first guy says, "Perhaps it’s just Acacia mistaken identity."

Or this one, beneath an image of a crowd of people fleeing a house:

"The children had the chicken Phlox and were looking rather Scabiosa. There was no Vaccinium, so everyone left post Hastata."

You get the idea. Just enough of a pun to make the right pronunciation obvious. Worth it for the art alone, but also fun to contemplate walking about in a state of euphorbia, or being so embarrassed you just want to dianthus. I think we’ve all been there.

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